An alternative to using this mod is to provide a page for "thispagedoesnotexist.html" in the main area of your TNG site. The advantage is that it will cure the problem for any module to that has this problem, not just getperson.php.

Developer

Rush Krieger

Config file by Ken Roy

Requirements

A working TNG installation. The automated installation release was initially tested at TNG Version 7.1.0. Manual installation previously used on TNG 6 and 7

Custom Text Additions

Note that the config file only includes the English language changes, so if you support multiple languages you will need to modify the config file to add the custom text for your other languages, or you need to manually add the custom text to your other language cust_text.php files.

The English custom text additions made to your English/cust_text.php and English-UTF8/cust_text.php files by this mod are shown below.

The language additions for French and Nederlands custom Text are also shown below.

English/cust_text.php

additions

// Added for Person Not Found message in getperson.php 404 error message$text[sorry]="Sorry!";$text[personpagemoved]="The page for the person you were looking for may have moved,";$text[pleaseuse]="Please use the ";$text[tolocateperson]=" feature to locate the person.";

In the event of a problem

Visualization of this mod

Without Mod

Without this mod, the normal 404 message displayed by TNG is shown in the image on the right.

With Mod Installed

With the Message 404 - getperson Mod installed, the person not found message is changed to one that allows the user to click the Search link to find the person using the Advanced Search page as shown in the image on the right.

Related Links

This mod is used in conjunction with the Resequencing IDs to help keep the user on your site, if you resequenced or deleted some IDs.